Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

Dorothy Rodham, whose compassion, humor and toughness as a stay-at-home mother in 1950s suburban Chicago profoundly influenced her daughter Hillary Clinton and masked her own difficult childhood, has died. She was 92.

Rodham died early Tuesday in Washington, D.C., according to a statement by the William J. Clinton Foundation. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton canceled a trip to London and Istanbul to be with her mother.

Rodham was born in Chicago on June 4, 1919, to Edwin Howell, a fireman, and his wife, Della.

Her parents fought violently, according to the records from their 1927 divorce, and neither paid much attention to Dorothy or her younger sister, Isabelle. After...

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Dorothy Rodham, whose compassion, humor and toughness as a stay-at-home mother in 1950s suburban Chicago profoundly influenced her daughter Hillary Clinton and masked her own difficult childhood, has died. She was 92.
Rodham died early Tuesday in...